This is so true. The modern Mac is a sea of Allow/Don't Allow prompts, mixed with the slightly more infantilizing alternative of the "Block" / "Open System Preferences" where you have to prove you know what you're doing by manually browsing for the app to grant the permission to, to add it to the list of ones with whatever permission.
They're just two different approaches with the same flaw: People with no clue how tech works cannot completely protect themselves from any possible attacker, while also having sophisticated networked features. Nobody has provided a decent alternative other than some kind of fully bubble-wrapped limited account using Group Policies, to ban all those perms from even being asked for.
They're just two different approaches with the same flaw: People with no clue how tech works cannot completely protect themselves from any possible attacker, while also having sophisticated networked features. Nobody has provided a decent alternative other than some kind of fully bubble-wrapped limited account using Group Policies, to ban all those perms from even being asked for.